NDTC performs at Leicester Dance Festival | News

The Serendipity Institute for Arts and Black Heritage recently hosted the National Dance Theater Company of Jamaica as part of the annual Let’s Dance International Frontiers (LDIF) dance festival at the Curve Theater in Leicester.

This was NTDC’s second performance at the festival, now regarded as the premier forum for celebrating dance from the African Caribbean diaspora in the UK. Jamaica’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Alexander Williams, and his wife, Carol Watson-Williams, were special guests at a welcome reception, which was also hosted at Curve prior to the NDTC show.

Pictured at the reception are (from left): Marlon D. Simms, NDTC Artistic Director; Pawlet Brookes MBE, CEO and Artistic Director of Serendipity Institute of Black Arts and Heritage; L’Antoinette Stines, Artistic Director of L’Acadco Dance Company; High Commissioner Alexander Williams; Mrs. Watson-Williams; David Blake, director of Urdang Academy; Brenda Edwards MBE, choreographer, consultant and producer; Sharon Watson, CEO and Director of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance; and Desreine Taylor, Consular for Diaspora Affairs at the High Commission of Jamaica.

NDTC performed nine works, including the popular Kumina by dance pioneer and company co-founder Rex Nettleford.